She’ll star alongside Diego Luna in the film, which is set to start production sometime this year, and tells the story of a girl’s coming of age while examining the dangers of humanity’s current relationship with the planet.

Elle will play the teen surviving as one of the last people on an abandoned post-cataclysmic Earth, who is racing to find a cure for her poisoned home world before the last shuttle off the planet to the distant human space colony leaves her stranded.

Elle Fanning is making us wanting it to be spring now with her watercolor dress at the Women In Film Pre-Oscar Cocktail Party at Hyde Sunset Kitchen + Cocktails on Friday night (February 20) in Los Angeles.

The 16-year-old actress wore a lovely Valentino dress and Bionda Castana shoes for the soiree alongside Jamie Chung, How To Get Away With Murder‘s Karla Souza and Serinda Swan.

Dakota added, “My mom has dark hair and dark eyes, so I’ve never really looked like her. For the first time, we were similar. And she was not into it. [Laughs] The day after the movie ended, I went back to being blonde—and myself.”

Dakota is also pictured below after a hike at Runyon Canyon park in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon (January 6).

Elle recently was sporting a super short cut while working on her movie Three Generations over the last month in New York City. She is playing a transgender teen named Ray, who is transitioning from female to male.